Recent Governance Issues at Starbucks

Last week, Starbucks announced that they will no longer be charging extra fees for drinks made with non-dairy alternatives, they will bring back the beloved “condiment bar,” and that prices on all products will not increase in 2025. These changes are in reaction to the company’s continuing financial decline over the last year, brought on […]

Show me the Liability – Corporations and AI in Medicine

AI in medicine, much like AI in any field, is ripe for development. One such application is AI scribes which are tools that can generate medical transcription from a live encounter between a physician and a patient. As Kristy pointed out in her Abridge article, AI scribes in medicine will undoubtably facilitate improved clinician reports […]

Abridge – Startups and Funding

Last class, on October 25, we had Valerie Mann talk to us about venture funds and how a startup can obtain funding. I came across this company called Abridge that is an app that uses AI to summarize patient notes to help medical professionals with their administrative and clerical work. Founded in 2018, this app […]

Discussion Post: The Meat of the Matter

Boar’s Head, a supplier of delicatessen meats, cheeses and condiments, is also a company so secretive that its chief financial officer admitted under oath he did not know who the chief executive officer was, has been dragged into public view due to a deadly listeria outbreak that killed 10 people and hospitalized dozens more. Founded […]

Discussion Post: Las Vegas Raiders Purchase

Hello Everyone, I recently came across the news of Tom Brady acquiring a minority stake in the Las Vegas Raiders as a limited partner in the franchise along with his business partner Tom Wagner for $220 million. 1 Under the limited partnership scheme, Brady is likely to have limited control over day-to-day operations but is […]

Welcome (Back)

Am excited to be teaching this course again. BizOrgs is a subject with multiple personalities. On one hand it merely deals with a set of tools – a fairly musty set of open-ended lego-like pieces that corporate frameworks are built from. On the other hand, the frameworks built from those pieces are often massive flashpoints […]

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  1. Stella Meng-Shan Hsieh

    Would like to join this awesome class!(^_^)

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